"Any kind of popular trend is infinitely more wholesome than listening to old records. It's more important that people know that some kind of pleasure can be derived from things that are around them - rather than to catalogue more stuff - you can do that forever"----Harry Smith ^^^^^^^^^^ "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may / Old Time is still a-flying / And this same flower that smiles today/Tomorrow will be dying"---Robert Herrick

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

thoughts of Ray Bradbury (RIP) led me to the other major movie version of one of his books, The Illustrated Man... which isn't, as I recall, particularly good (whereas Fahrenheit 451, despite its peculiar stilted quality and leaden pacing, does manage to grip the attention and linger in the memory through its visuals and mood and overall look... there's also a couple of really aberrant, wtf moments in it which unfortunately don't seem to be on YouTube )... anyway, The Illustrated Man, not very good, but it does have a cool soundtrack by Jerry Goldsmith

Goldsmith's fantastic electronic score for 1976's Logan's Run has been a favorite for a while, but I didn't realise JG had experimented with synths as early as 1969